{"product_id":"my-couch-ate-my-ambition-rhoshell-baker-9798183626100","title":"My Couch Ate My Ambition","description":"\u003cp\u003eI did not choose the couch. The couch chose me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt thirty-seven, I was a person with plans. Italian fluency (the Duolingo owl still haunts my dreams). A gym membership (the treadmill has never seen my face). A novel (seventeen first pages, zero second chapters). Then I bought a beige sofa from a salesman named Gary, and my ambition disappeared-one crumb at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a self-help book. It is a surrender document.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy couch speaks in rumbles and hums. It has a gravitational pull stronger than physics. It whispers things like, \"The remote is under the left cushion\" and \"You've done enough.\" My dining chair, bar stool, and a footstool in a garish floral pattern staged an intervention. My friend Marcus tried to exorcise the couch with sage and Gregorian chants. He fell asleep. The couch won.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart parable, part confession, part furniture-based stand-up routine, \u003ci\u003eMy Couch Ate My Ambition\u003c\/i\u003e is for anyone who has ever canceled plans to lie down, ignored a notification from a passive-aggressive owl, or felt a deep kinship with a ceiling stain named Gerald.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpoiler: I never learn Italian. I never go to the gym. I never write the novel. But I do learn the difference between hiding and resting. And I discover that a single green grape, placed on the left armrest each morning, is enough to keep the hunger at bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rhoshell Baker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798183626100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d","brand":"Rhoshell Baker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49174172369151,"sku":"9798183626100","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/my-couch-ate-my-ambition-rhoshell-baker-9798183626100","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}